harvard lost ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much done with all my midterms and now I'm really happy. That means this weekend up till the end of Thanksgiving break, I can read and write and do math at my leisure. wheee ( Read more... )

I got confused about who the speaker was until the 2nd time around ( Read more... )

fugazi.
brilliant, brilliant stuff.
if you could take radiohead and sonic youth, splice them together and make the sound more precise, the lyrics more powerful, and the emotion a little more raw, you would have a faux version of fugazi.
I haven't been this impressed by a band in a long time. I can't believe I didn't discover them earlier.

I am the most paranoid person I know, and this could be because either I am in fact very paranoid and inherited it from my father, or I don't know many people. Both cases are plausible ( Read more... )

"Zen is not merely a cult of impulsive action. The point of mo chih ch'u is not to elimninate reflective thought but to eliminate "blocking" in both action and thought, so that the response of the mind is always like a ball in a mountain stream- 'one thought after another without hesitation'...there is a tendency to confuse 'blocking'- a purely ( Read more... )

Q: why can't you plant corn in Z_8 ( Read more... )

"Zen discipline is simple, direct, self-reliant, self-denying; its ascetic tendency goes well with the fighting spirit. The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him. He is therefore not to be ( Read more... )

i bought the CD when i was 13 or 14. I couldn't appreciate how beautiful the lyrics to this song were at the time. a poem, no less ( Read more... )

from my job, which is essentially rummaging around campus architecture & planning files. names i come across like it's no big deal: piano (they call him renzo here, at least on the phone), venturi, koolhaas, moshe safdie, rafael moneo, among others.

"I was lucky, and I say lucky, to have an idea early in my life. I am lucky that I have lived long ( Read more... )